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CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform. paperback. New. 5x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

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TREDITION CLASSICS, 2012-12-12. Paperback. Good.

TREDITION CLASSICS. paperback. New. 5x0x8. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

British Library, Historical Print Editions. paperback. New. 7x0x9. Brand New Book in Publishers original Sealing

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John Murray, 1818. Hardcover. Good. pages in vg condition as are the 2 folding maps and 3 one page maps and the color illustrations minimal foxing 3/4 l calf leather with marble boards frpnt board loose

London: John Murray, 1818., 1818. And A Vocablulary of the Loo-Choo Language. First printing. 4to. Frontispiece hand-colored aquatint. Half-title, xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72] pp. Loo-Choo Language. Illustrated with 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate. Full calf binding with marbled endpapers. The spinal calf is very worn and darkened, wear at the extremities, contents tight with scattered foxing; dust soil title page. Bookplate of John Sober front pastedown. Very good.. 1st Edition. Hardcover. Very Good.

London: John Murray, 1818. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate (of Wollaston's Dip Sector), xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72]p. Recent quarterbinding. 27cm. Foxing on illustrations. Bookplate of famed actor John Barrymore (along with a recent penciled note stating that this book was sold for $24.80 as lot B-73 at an auction in 1941 (after the actor's death). Letter (tipped in) and inscription by the author's sister Magdalene (who died in childbirth in 1823 while married to Henry Harvey). The letter and inscription appear to be to the same person, addressed in the inscription as M. Le Chevalier. We believe that the recipient was Jean Baptiste Joseph, chevalier Delambre.

4to. London: John Murray, 1818. 4to, 2 p.l., [vii]-xv, [1] plate list, 222, cxxx, [72]. With a frontispiece and 7 plates all color lithographs by Havell, 2 uncolored plates, and 5 maps (3 folding). Modern quarter blue morocco lettered in gilt, by Zaehnsdorf (1962). A very fine untrimmed copy, partially unopened, with Hall's clipped signature at the front. § The Amherst embassy and an early account of KoreaFirst edition of one of the earliest accounts of Korea by a European. Hall captained the sloop Lyra which, with the Alceste, brought the Amherst Embassy to China. He made a voyage to Korea and to the island of Loo-Choo (present day Okinawa). “Korea had been sketchily explored by Europeans, but it was not until the Alceste and Lyra expedition of 1816-17, under Captains Murray Maxwell and Basil Hall, that detailed information was obtained about the Ryukyus” (Hill). The substantial appendices include charts, tables of observations, a meteorological journal, an abstract of the Lyra’s voyage, a… Leer más

London: John Murray, 1818. 1st ed. Hardcover. Very Good. 9 aquatint plates (8 hand-colored, including frontis), 5 maps (2 folding), 1 other uncolored plate (of Wollaston's Dip Sector), xv, [1], 222, cxxx, [72]p. Contemporary black leather which has been rebacked in later black leather. 27cm. Cover scuffed. Corner heavily rubbed with loss of leather. Half-title and tissue guards present. Moderate foxing on tissue guards and some scattered elsewhere. Minor offsetting and age-toning. Color plates clean and attractive as are the maps and charts. All edges gilt. Marbled endpapers. INSCRIBED (as "the "Author") on half-title to the author's mother ("Lady Helen Hall from her affectionate Son, The Author").

London 1818, Murray. 3/4 leather over marbled boards, neatly rebacked, 222p., appendix, glossary, 8 aquatint hand-colored plates, 1 b.w. engraving, 5 fold-out maps, 1 b.w. engraving, 6 fold-out maps & charts.*AUTHOR'S SIGNED PRESENTATION COPY* .. *** **** *** . . . THE FIRST ACCURATE EUROPEAN ACCOUNT OF COREANS & COREA . . THE RARE FIRST EDITION, WITH 8 HAND-COLORED AQUA TINTS . . COPPER ETCHED ENGRAVINGS AND MAPS . THE RARE FIRST EDITION, WITH 8 HAND-COLORED AQUA TINTS . . WITH FIVE LARGE FOLDING CHARTS/MAPS . While there was an earlier smaller accounts of Korea by the Dutchman, Hamel, Hall's work is comprehensive and an accurate account of Korea's coast, and other important aspects of Koreans, hitherto not recorded. * . With a rich appendix of charts, table of observations, meteorological journal, abstract of the Lyra's Voyage, geological memorandum, &c. With glossary & vocabulary of English & Loo-Choo [Okinawan] words, alphabetically arranged with notes &… Leer más

London 1818, Murray. Contemporary full gold stamped leather, old spine laid down, 8 aquatint hand-colored engravings, 6 fold-out maps & charts, 222p., 1 b.w. engraving,ca 21.5 x 27 cm.FIRST EDITION * AUTHOR'S SIGNED, DATED LETTER TIPPED IN * .. *** **** *** . . . THE FIRST ACCURATE EUROPEAN ACCOUNT OF COREANS & COREA . . THE RARE FIRST EDITION, WITH 8 HAND-COLORED AQUA TINTS . . COPPER ETCHED ENGRAVINGS AND MAPS . THE RARE FIRST EDITION, WITH 8 HAND-COLORED AQUA TINTS . . WITH FIVE LARGE FOLDING CHARTS/MAPS . While there was an earlier smaller accounts of Korea by the Dutchman, Hamel, Hall's work is comprehensive and an accurate account of Korea's coast, and other important aspects of Koreans, hitherto not recorded. * . With a rich appendix of charts, table of observations, meteorological journal, abstract of the Lyra's Voyage, geological memorandum, &c. With glossary & vocabulary of English & Loo-Choo [Okinawan] words, alphabetically arranged with notes &… Leer más